Howard v. Minnesota Muskies, Inc.

We affirm the summary final judgment entered in favor of the defendant Eugene E. Stearns on the attorney malpractice claim because it was time barred by the applicable two-year statute of limitations. § 95.11(4)(a), Fla.Stat. (1981). The plaintiff Robert A. Howard admittedly learned, no later than May 1978, of a prior judgment entered against him and, with the exercise of due diligence, should have learned shortly thereafter that this was a default judgment entered after his counsel, the defendant Stearns, had withdrawn; the alleged attorney malpractice was that Stearns withdrew without the…